I’m trying to understand it… please let me know if I got something wrong… or if you see it differently…
In this potential scenario, she meets a man by the surname of Remakel in Australia. He’s charming but controlling and manipulative.
Although Marion’s never shied away from introducing men to her family before, she does not introduce Remakel because he forces her not to. If she even
hints to her kids that she is seeing someone, he will end the relationship!
He tricks her into having a pretend marriage ceremony before moving to Luxembourg. So someone else is complicit in this scenario.
As she thinks they are married, she changes her surname to his surname. She also changes her entire name because it sounds more ‘Luxembourgish’. He might've forced her to change her name, the man is controlling and Marion will do anything for love. Yet, she did not show signs of being in love, but stressed and acting unusual according to family and friends.
But first, they go on holiday together to England with the goal of journeying on the Orient Express. But it never happens.
They return to Australia together with the intention of informing family, withdrawing cash and sending shipping container to Luxembourg where they will finally get to live! Yet on the passenger card, she says she’s already a housewife living in Luxembourg.
So did they live in Luxembourg for 6 weeks? Or was she vacationing in England? Did she lie on postcards and phone call? Or did she lie on passenger card? As far as we can tell, she hasn't 'moved' to Luxembourg yet.
Once in Australia, she only intends to stay for 8 days to visit family as stated on passenger card. However, from 2 Aug to Sep when she last used her Medicare in Grafton, she does not visit family. He forced her not to. Then he did something to her.
He has since taken her money and either stayed in Australia or went overseas. Either way, his name isn't actually Remakel.
According to the podcast, there are no other Remakel’s in Australia. I can’t remember the precise words of Gary on it, but something along the lines of, apart from Florabella, no other Remakel’s have entered or left Australia around the time Marion did.
So, Marion’s potential fake husband made her change her name to a name that wasn’t even his, nor on his passport. This was a con all along.
I only wonder why the police kept saying someone had spoken to Marion and insisted they did in the months leading up to July 2007. This is evidenced by an email obtained via FOI. I still believe the con man scenario could be true AND someone involved either feed police bad info, or someone in the police was involved and made up the bad info.
Whatever happened, I feel terrible for Marion and her family